Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eliot's sudden shift to contemporary prose here--the bland droning of board-room babble--is, if not the most subtle, certainly the most dramatically effective touch in the play: the knights appeal directly to the listeners, in impoverished but familiar language, to understand their motives. Eliot forces his audience either to accept their justifications or, rejecting them, participate in the deeper mystery around which the play hovers--the working of God's will through...
Bellamy added that legislators at the local level must stay accessible to their constituents to effectively represent them. "Too often people have the sense they can't touch politicians," she said...
...ended. The arrival of a new Bird (Larry, the No. 2 college scorer for the previous two years and the paradigm of a team player) and the revival of the old Cowens (Dave, the fiery redhead whose intensity inspires others) have combined to rejuvenate a franchise that had lost touch with its legacy. Boston is winning again, and winning the Celtic...
Arlen focuses mainly on the making of a single commercial, American Telephone & Telegraph's effort to encourage more long-distance calling or, as their infectious jingle suggests, "Reach out, reach out and touch someone." Says the vice president in charge of the "creative group" that devised the ad: "From the very beginning, AT&T wanted us to overcome the negative emotions associated with long-distance, the bad-news phone call in the middle of the night. For years, there has been a definitely negative, uncasual quality to a lot of long-distance calling. AT&T wanted us to emphasize...
...relations blunders, destroying some of the presses and assaulting reporters. The Post turned public opinion against the strikers and busted the union, driving it right out of business. The strike story ends like nearly every story in The Pillars: with the Post owners richer and happier, and Bray, a touch awed, delighted to tell the tale...